Re: Proposed documentation/script changes for potato (ntp/chrony/util-linux)

2000-03-22 Thread andrew
27;ve read in many places that one should never adjust the system clock discontinuously, especially not backwards. Do you have any thoughts on this? Andrew

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Bug#972996: ITP: nccm -- Terminal based ssh connection manager

2020-10-26 Thread Andrew
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew * Package name: nccm Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Kenneth Aaron * URL : https://github.com/flyingrhinonz/nccm * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: Python Description : Terminal based ssh connection

Bug#1076329: ITP: libmarkdown-render-perl -- Render markdown using Text::Markdown::Discount or GitHub API

2024-07-14 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Owner: Andrew Ruthven Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmarkdown-render-perl Version : 1.04 Upstream Author : Rob Lauer * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Markdown-Render

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
s work? I would like to volunteer. Please give me some pointers on how I could better educate myself, as I have an interest in increasing my understanding of the "back-end" of what makes the distribution tick. regards Andrew -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ -

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
e improved. It also explains why the current process needs to > be improved as well. > > Thanks to Ubuntu, we now have a good example of what's proven > to work. > I think it is premature to declare that Ubuntu's model works any better than what we're currently doing, in

Mass bug filing: build depends on libtool1.4

2004-10-27 Thread Andrew Pollock
alve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package: rpm Maintainer: Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package: wsoundserver Should I file a bug against these packages requesting that they update their build dependencies? wsoundserver already has such a bug filed, so there would

Re: Bug#262507: ITP: resmgr -- resource manager library

2004-10-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
nly use it in scenarios where you would be willing to use pam_console. (Why somebody bothered to implement resmgr instead of simply enhancing pam_console is beyond me; probably NIH) -- .''`. ** Debian G

Re: Bug#262507: ITP: resmgr -- resource manager library

2004-10-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
cess someplace. Quite ironically, the solutions to the problems they cite for pam_console are exactly the same as the solutions they implemented for resmgr. Hence I figure it was probably NIH. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#281331: ITP: dstat -- versatile resource statistics tool

2004-11-15 Thread Andrew Pollock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: dstat Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ * License : GPL Description : versatile resource statistics tool Dstat is a versatile r

Re: crash of csh

2004-11-15 Thread Andrew Pollock
iner: Matej Vela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package: bash Maintainer: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > if have a segmentation fault with the csh. > the csh still crashs if you run eval '\!\!' in it. All the more reason to use a better shell, or file a bug. regards

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
an are guaranteed to always have conflicting results. No matter what your position on an issue, somebody in the project disagrees with you. Get over it. The only genuinely neutral content is the output of /dev/random; all else is subjective. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | An

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
only the tools provided on a Debian CD is a total moron. You might as well complain that the internet is bad, just because it's primarily used as a vehicle for delivering porn. [And that's without even starting on this insane notion that trying to stop kids from seeing porn is someho

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:47:47PM +, Will Newton wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 22:15, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > Anybody who can't obtain porn using only the tools provided on a > > Debian CD is a total moron. You might as well complain that the > > inter

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
east get it right. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
; '(debTimeStamp>$lasttime)'. this would make keeping debian up to > date over dialup a much easier experience i imagine. Or you could just use something like rsync. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT: appealing to the puritan interest [was Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor]

2004-12-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
t; in? > > Well, you would need to check the penal codes of each individual state > wherein such a minor resides; [...] > I don't > know how this applies to offenders from the UK. We tell them to fuck off. -- .'

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
here is only absence of action from some parties. Just because you elect not to engage in an action doesn't mean you can claim that nobody else should engage in that action. Not even under some misguided notion of "equality". If somebody was saying &q

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
ight. If it's necessary for one thing then it's necessary for everything. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:14:07PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > >Oh come on, they're at far greater risk from our overly-permissive > >approach to copyright and patent issues. > > > The copyright and patent problems faced by Debian are i

Re: Bug#284283: ITP: fairuse -- spam filter based on sender identity verification

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:51:29PM -0800, Stephen Birch wrote: > * License : Free for non-commercial use > > Subject to license verification (DFSG compliant): Non-commercial-use-only licenses are non-free. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suf

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
roducing censorship in order to not 'hurt their feelings' to be morally repugnant. It has been proven endless times that once you start doing this, you can't stop. For any package, there is going to be some minority group that is offended by it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
be exploited. Precisely. If we tolerate the intolerance of these people who are so terrified of images of the naked female form, then they will continue to exploit our tolerance. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
iven > package is NOT censorship. And telling somebody else that they can't distribute a given package IS censorship. You evidently have chosen not to do it. That's not censorship. You're presumably also trying to tell somebody else not to do it. That's censorship. --

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 03:55:27PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential > > foundations of a democratic society and one of the basic conditions > > for its

Re: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:21:04PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 05-Dec-04, 09:07 (CST), Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 08:45:56AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > On 05-Dec-04, 04:55 (CST), James Foster &

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
th > its expected implementation. There's only one way this ever goes. Any student of history should be familiar with how this plays out. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
Debian works. You do the stuff you're interested in (frequently without mentioning it to anybody else, in some cases). Your Chicken Little act is not impressing anybody. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `'

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
transliterated field should be called 'Maintainer'. If you want some other freaky encoding, unsupported by the older tools, put it in a new field. Using the old field just breaks stuff for no reason. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffi

Re: Questionable image process. Was: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
you share interests with, then you really need to emigrate or revolt. Mine doesn't. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 08:33:54PM -0500, Josh Metzler wrote: > On Sunday 05 December 2004 08:25 pm, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:21:04PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > On 05-Dec-04, 09:07 (CST), Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
At least in .au we have some legislation to protect minority > groups but we're not living in a totalitarian PC clampdown. Sounds irrelevant. There's a big difference between 'protect minority groups' (from what?) and 'compel everybody to behave in a

Re: Sacred Cows [was: Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.]

2004-12-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
in the context that Bruce's "history" is comprised of the immortal words "Fuck you all" and the deletion of our mailing list archives. Then it makes more sense. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ |

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
not seriously applied. It's there to cover the University in the case of a lawsuit, and to allow them to selectively apply it to people they want to get rid of (just about anybody can be effectively accused of violating the policy; it's almost impossible to go through the day without doi

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
own actions. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
hile censorship is a choice made by an otherwise unrelated person in the same organisation. Editing would be if the maintainer decided to remove the package. Censorship is when some other developer tries to force him. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
that in certain > contexts compels people to behave in a manner approved of by minority > groups, and yet we're not living in a totalitarian PC clampdown. Yet. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:25:31PM +0100, Andrea Bedini wrote: > Il giorno lun, 06-12-2004 alle 01:49 +0000, Andrew Suffield ha scritto: > > Word games. Censorship is when a citizen of one body chooses to have > > that body distribute something (by being a citizen and distributi

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
sible to think a package like hot-babe > is a bad idea without wanting to be set up as a censor for all ideas they > disagree with. However, it's extremely unlikely that it is possible to ban it for that reason without going down that path. There's a significant difference between

Re: package rejection

2004-12-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
ng. Commercial publishers run into this problem all the time and often decide it's safer not to bother] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
sing a 'core' chunk early before there are any applications to run on it?) (c) Stuff that we've tried before and abandoned (like freezing unstable) (d) Stuff that isn't related to making releases faster -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pre-Depends on emacs21? Re: cedet-common: breaks other packages in batch mode

2004-12-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
instead. Should be a trivial addition of a conditional somewhere. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
7;s not their fault if the software doesn't work, or indeed completely fails to be inside the expensive box when you open it). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why firmware generally won't be Free Software

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
l world. Free software is here. We'll do it again if we have to. They can open their specifications or we'll fucking implement around them and eventually drive them out of the market. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | A

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:07:35AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > It will take fund-raising to do it. Bullshit. There goes that "free software is impossible" argument again. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :&#x

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
nity to make widely desireable chips with zero royalty costs. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:57:19PM -0500, Brendan wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2004 14:50, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > My surmise is that we'd need an effort like that, raising $250K, to > > &

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:43:37AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:50:02PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > My surmise is that we'd need an effort like that, raising $250K, to

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:13:53PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:50:02PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > My surmise is that we'd need an effort like that, raising $250K, to

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
) and requires various pieces of test equipment (the > purchase of which would also be a capital expense). One way or another, > someone will have to bear these expenses. And they say that about software too. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
tatement was of the form "Here is how we do it, and our way is the only way in which it is possible to do it". And we've heard that one before. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?

2004-12-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
don't have that excuse. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

For people more knowledgeable about buildds...

2005-01-04 Thread Andrew Pollock
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are requests for requeuing? regards Andrew -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Australia - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ -Get bitten! signature.asc D

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Andrew Pollock
ctually not abreast of what the issue is with the security infrastructure, so I don't know if it's likely to be a blocker all over again come etch release time. I'd like to think it's going to easier to release etch sooner. regards Andrew -- linux.conf.au 2005 - ht

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-04 Thread Andrew Pollock
dn't this have a flow on effect on our mirrors (or is the mirror pulse independent of the dinstall run)? Either way, if the mirror pulse only happens once a day, running dinstall more than once is going to be largely ineffective for most users isn't it? regards Andrew -- linu

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems?

2005-01-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
ot more > > time-effective, mail for mail, than trying to teach people how to use their > > MUA.) > > Mail-Followup-To is not part of any of the standards defining e-mail > protocols. Which just goes to show how useless and irrelevant these purported "standards&qu

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:45:12PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:36:11 +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:16:27AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > >> http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly (part of the ReleaseProposals > >

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
decoders. Encoders only, not decoders. Decoders for anything probably cannot be patented. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:56:43PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:06:53PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > Is only MPEG Layer III patent encumbered ? > > > > How about the other MPEG stuff ? > > > > I find it har

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
Those are the patents for the transport mechanisms. Still not the decoders. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:03:37PM +, Will Newton wrote: > On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 15:46, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > And every set top box manufacturer pays for their MPEG-2 (or MPEG-4) > > > licenses. > > > > Those are the patents for the transpor

Bug#293010: ITP: nautilus-sendto -- integrates Evolution and Gaim into the Nautilus file manager

2005-01-31 Thread Andrew Lau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nautilus-sendto Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Roberto Majadas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.es.gnome.org/~telemaco/ * License : GPL

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-02 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
ve ported all their scripts to the new RT 3.4 APIs. "Our priorities are our users ..." right? That said, we'll scrap the 3.2 packages when 3.4 get into sid; they've never been in a stable distribution and they haven't been in sid for that long. -- Andrew Stribblehill

Re: execturing libc

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
t having write access to any media that's not marked noexec? > > But I agree that the security benefits are trivial on a system where > users have access to perl. Or bash, that's enough to do it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :'

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
you could have done that yourself and saved us all the time of a couple of mails. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [debian-devel] Re: FW: A Call to Action in OASIS

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
#x27;s a real problem that we've been facing for quite some time now. Action based on rational evaluation of the consequences *only*, please. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Updating config files: permissions!?

2005-02-26 Thread Andrew Suffield
ated file in place; no file is better than a mangled file). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
o, not really. It's slow and doesn't present any views on the information that are particularly useful and it's completely immune to shell scripting. A web interface would appear to be the wrong way to do this. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield

Re: self-depending packages

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
(I've hacked the code.) Unfortunately apt breaks the code. If you use dpkg directly it'll work. If you use apt it'll pick a random and unpredictable starting point. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** |

Re: self-depending packages

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:49:41PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 20050228T164806+0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Unfortunately apt breaks the code. If you use dpkg directly it'll > > work. If you use apt it'll pick a random and unpredictable starting &g

Re: Info and statistics about the project

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Pollock
ce and forgive me If I should begin asking for this in > debian-users. > Possibly debian-project is a better list to ask. regards Andrew -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://linux.conf.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://linux.conf.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Au

Re: Bug#298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-03-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
hy random people should not be writing licenses. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Not every package should enter Debian (was: Re: Who cares about NEW when there are bigger issues? (was Re: Is NEW processing on hold? (was: Question for candidate Towns)))

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
ople ever object to 'pr0n' in the first place :P But since those would exclude so much of the archive already, they really can't be allowed as criteria. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

d-i has 99% support for filesystem labels (was: Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware)

2005-03-13 Thread Andrew Pollock
stems with a label, however I didn't manage to convince them to mount by the label in /etc/fstab regards Andrew -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://linux.conf.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://linux.conf.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Australia - http://linux.conf.au/ -

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
Trust is a 3-ary function of the form: trust :: Person -> Task -> Scenario -> Boolean And is defined as: trust p t s = (need_to_trust p t s) && (willing_to_trust p t s) It is not this, as you so absurdly clai

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Andrew Saunders
GR amending the DFSG is proposed and passed, the ambiguity will remain. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/07/msg00435.html -- Andrew Saunders

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
be better than using yet another > scheme. > As a user, I much prefer foo + libfoo + foo-doc-en + foo-doc-fr rather than foo + libfoo + foo-en-doc + foo-fr-doc To me the hierarchy tree -- is much more natural than

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:40, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:28, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > FWIW, Debian package names prefer e.g. foo-en-uk-doc over > > > foo-documentation-ukenglish. Can you provide a reference/stats to back t

Re: Stephen Frost MIA?

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
gt; > Since when is a message that is on topic (or at least relevant) to > Debian development spam? Everything on -devel is spam these days, didn't you get the memo? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
r "package libbar-dev". I think this functionality would have to be > implemented on the BTS side. Logically package should work where is a source package. (Because its quite common to eg tag multiple bugs pending at the same time). Andrew V. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Vaughan
y the > Debian submenu. > On my sarge system KDE already does this. (Installed from sarge Installer beta 1 IIRC). Menu->Internet->Download Manager (KGet) FTP Client (KBear) etc Not all programs are properly classified eg. Mozilla, Thunderbird, most of the Development tools s

Re: kernel 2.6.14

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
ectory. > > > > Is this fixable or do I have to set up my complete system again? Hope > > not. > > > > Pascal. > > Here is what worked for me: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01408.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01406.html > > post your steps if you get stuck > > Andrei HTH Andrew V.

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew Saunders
tivating participation and how you actually sort of keep from getting stuck in a rut or something. So... I don't know that I have any more brilliant ideas than that. [1] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2005/debconf5/mpeg/2005-07-16/08-Structural_Evolution-Bdale_Garbee.mpeg -- Andrew Saunders

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
rts > of the world. I wish we could get it that cheap for my day job. What we have to pay to get useful bandwidth has more zeros in it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `-

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:56:27AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 12/19/05, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:27:36PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > * Steinar H. Gunderson: > > > > > >

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Suffield
redit. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: udev event completion order

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
could easily result in some-one restoring a backup over the wrong disk. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
h a team too. All it takes is some > interested people and an alioth project. > > - David Nusinow I was about to suggest exactly that. Thanks David Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
g every *change* to a given component to go through a single individual. Large projects need a pumpking, because dogpiling creates lousy software. For Debian this would be cumbersome and unwieldy as a rule, but some high-importance tasks could benefit from it. --

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 08:38 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On the other hand, I think there might be some benefit to requiring > > that the Maintainer field must always denote one single Debian > > develo

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:31:19PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > >On the other hand, I think there might be some benefit to requiring > >that the Maintainer field must always denote one single Debian > >developer, who would be the "

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
problem at hand is exactly that /dev/hdX won't > necessarily be stable anymore. > > (and, once more, and much worse: network interfaces need a solution to the > same problem...) nameif, ifrename - really, this problem has been solved so many times that it's just not funny a

Re: No 2.6 kernels for 586 in Sarge and up

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
,headers}. (on sarge, long lines trimmed) $ apt-cache search 586 |grep image kernel-image-2.4-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on Pentium-Clas kernel-image-2.4.27-2-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.27 on Pent As Jérôme said, no 2.6 kernel compiled for 586 in sarge. Andrew

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
ills to create their own package can still contribute. And by contributing they can learn new skills. Just my 2 cents Andrew V. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Listmaster] Seeking petsupermarket

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
he last days on other lists than debian-devel, then this > information is maybe helpful to identify the address. > debian-user is also affected Andrew V. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
ld one expires should be safe at present. That's a conservative estimate. To defend against ancillary attacks (like somebody grabbing a copy of the key from ftp-master) you need to know how probable they are, and reduce these figures accordingly. -- .''`. ** Deb

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
ces don't scale to the level at which we have to work *all the time*. Just ask the BTS admins what happens when somebody scans http://bugs.debian.org/ to collect data. Oh, and hey - when SuSE are doing better than you at publishing the tools they use, it's a hint that maybe you suck.

Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
d possibly be right, but you never know without reading the thing... -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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